Works

My objective when I created this interface was to have a very expressive melodic instrument. I love synthesizers but I don’t consider the usual interface (a musical keyboard) very expressive for melodic lines.

All the sensors go into a Teensy 3.1 microcontroller, which was programmed using C.

The micro controller sends serial data through USB to my computer. The sound is generated by a program made in ChucK.

All the buttons of the button board go into a multiplexer chip that lets me use 5 wires instead of 12 from the ribbon cable to send the information to the micro controller.
Everything in the button board is connected to a dual array of pins where the ribbon cable is connected.